hi jim,
believe it or not, in a sense, nothing is obviously wrong. X is prolly
working just fine.
for whatever reason, you're not running a window manager or desktop
manager. this is what X looks like when she's completely naked and
exposed.
i'm not familiar enough with redhat to know how to get your previous
configuration back. there are many different ways to get a win manager
and/or desktop manager running.
in the meantime, to kill it, just do ctl-alt-backspace as usual.
what does your $HOME/.xinitrc contain?
what does your $HOME/.Xsession contain?
what happened recently that might have changed your system?
send me the contents of startx 2>filetosendpete
hth,
pete
begin Jim Angstadt <jimajima9@yahoo.com>
> Hi All,
>
> [I'm re-sending this. I used on old address before.]
>
> My Red Hat 7.1 box booted normally to the command line
> this morning. Ran startx and hung part way into it.
> I see a carpet pattern that slowly moves N to S and is
> composed of diagonal lines in various colors.
>
> How do I get out of limbo? Please keep it simple.
>
> ---
> Jim
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